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Asia Pacific premiere of Citadel is a starry

affair with Richard Madden, Priyanka

Chopra Jonas and many celebrities

OUR BUREAU
MUMBAI

rand, thrilling, and spectac-
ular, would be just some of
Gthe words to describe the
star-studded affair at the Asia Pa-
cific Premiere of the epic spy-thrill-
er series – Citadel. The landmark,
high-stakes drama is executive
produced by the Russo Brothers’
AGBO and showrunner David Weil,
and stars Richard Madden, and Pri-
yanka Chopra Jonas, with Stanley
Tucci and Lesley Manville.
Ahead of its launch on Prime
Video on 28th April, the streaming
service hosted a special premiere
of the series in the city last night,
kickstarting the global tour with
Mumbai as its first stop, followed by
Rome, and London.

The glitz and glamour of the
carpet witnessed not only the

lead cast- Richard Madden,
Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Gaurav
Gandhi, Vice President, Asia
Pacific, Prime Video, Sushant

Sreeram, Country Director,
Prime Video, India, but also
some of the most esteemed
names from film, television, Gaurav Gandhi, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Richard Madden and Sushant Sreeram at the Mumbai event

and entertainment industry.
Aashish Chanchlani, Sophie Chou- Guests at the premiere were Citadel is executive produced
Adding even more glamour to dry, Anushka Dandekar, Siddhant seen not only enjoying the evening, by the Russo Brothers’ AGBO and
the night, lead actor of the untitled Gupta, Neha Sharma, Saqib Saleem, but also heaped praises on the stun- showrunner David Weil. Alongside
Indian installment of the Citadel Ishwak Singh, Kubra Sait, Gurmeet ning action, captivating twists in the Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Richard
universe – Varun Dhawan, creators Singh, Mehreen Pirzada, Bhuvan storyline, and enormous scale of Cit- Madden, the 6-episode series features
– Raj, and DK, and writer – Sita R. Arora, Shruti Seth and Karan Mehta adel, a spy series packed with covert Stanley Tucci and Lesley Manville in
Menon, also graced the event. arrived at the screening. operations, counter-intelligence, and pivotal roles. This thrilling spy series,
Celebrities like Rekha, Aditi Directors and producers like double-allegiances. that takes viewers around the world,
Rao Hydari, Rasika Dugal, Sanya Madhur Bhandarkar, Kabir Khan, The series consists of six parts, will premiere exclusively on Prime
Malhotra, Shweta Tripathi, Sikan- Siddharth Roy Kapur, Vikramaditya with two episodes premiering on Video starting April 28 with two epi-
der Kher, Mohit Raina, Ali Fazal, Motwane, Pushkar-Gayatri, Nikh- April 28 on Prime Video, and one ep- sodes and then one episode rolling out
Rakulpreet Singh, Jim Sarbh, Sayani il Advani, Anubhav Sinha, Shonali isode rolling out every week, through weekly through May 26. The global
Gupta, Mini Mathur, Nora Fatehi, Bose, Tanuja Chandra, Samir Nair, May 26. The series also stars Stanley series will stream across 240 countries
Sunny Leone, Patralekha, Neha Dh- Aatish Kapadia, and J.D. Majethia Tucci, Lesley Manville, and Ashleigh and territories in English, Hindi, Tam-
upia, Prajakta Kohli, Kusha Kapila, attended the event. Cummings in pivotal roles. il, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam

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